Life Cycle for OXO

[f+r]

Hello everybody,

I'm planning to buy a new PABX at my company and some companies are offering Alcatel OXO.
One company are offering hardware version 9.x and other told me that his version is the 10.x, very recently.

But both, doesn't know to tell me the life cycle for this product.
I try at Alcatel website and Google, but don't find any document.

Anybody knows about it?

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Regards

[cavagnaro]

Hi,
The HW provided with OXO is called Common Hardware, it has been on market for around 8 years. What varies is the software version and some new boards needed from time to time, like CPU upgrade.
With the HW if you want new releases (As on any supported software and hardware) you need a support contract. That gives you new versions, updates, patches, etc.
As for how long OXO will be alive, there is R10 coming, and will keep at least for 3 years if not more. I don't see ALU killing OXO any near soon as it works fine for small enterprise market, as OXE does for Medium and big markets.

[f+r]

Hi cavagnaro,
Thank you for your quick answer.

My doubt, is about further upgrades:

For example, if I buy the OXO 9.x. In the future, I'll be able to buy additional components, like interface cards?
Or for anything, will be necessary first upgrade the OXO to the last release before I can use new components.


Other question is about the age of OXO release 9. Do you know when ALU started to sell it?


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Regards

[cavagnaro]

??
Well...no HW is usually associated to upgrades of software, unless very specific boards or sets.
You need to ask these questions to the BP who is selling you the OXO.

[f+r]

Sorry if you didn't understand me. I'm newbie about Alcatel lol.

My worry is basically about the general life cycle. I'm planning to stay with same PBX for 5 years or more.

So, trying to be more clear:
BP 'A' is offering OXO version 9.2 (PowerPC) for 15% less than BP 'B' which has OXO version 10.
Today I discovered that OXO 10 has a new CPU/SoC called PowerPCee, and it was released in last 2014.

If I buy the OXO 9, could I stay for 5 years buying additional parts, like expansion cards?
Should I go through OXO 10, last version ?
Alcate has any documentation explaining about OXO life cycle (dates for EOS / EOL)?

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Best regards

[cavagnaro]

You can buy but who will support/install those boards?
R9 obviously has less support time frame than 10. Imagine it as Win7 vs Win8, same software path.
As HW, already mentioned, few boards vary like CPU.

If you buy R9 eventually if wanna keep on support will have to upgrade to 10, how much will it cost?

[Jtmurphy76]

The Power CPU EE would be used for Omnitouch for SMB. This is a unified communications platform. The Power CPU for Rel 9.x would still work on Rel 10.x